The scheme HKDF is specifed as: HKDF(XTS, SKM, CTXinfo, L) = K(1) || K(2) || ... || K(t) where the values K(i) are defined as follows: PRK = HMAC(XTS, SKM) K(1) = HMAC(PRK, CTXinfo || 0); K(i+1) = HMAC(PRK, K(i) || CTXinfo || i), 1 <= i < t; where t = [L/k] and the value K(t) is truncated to its first d = L mod k bits; the counter i is non-wrapping and of a given fixed size, e.g., a single byte. Note that the length of the HMAC output is the same as its key length and therefore the scheme is well defined.

XTS is the "extractor salt" SKM is the "secret keying material"

N.B. http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/264.pdf seems to differ from RFC 5869 in that the test vectors from RFC 5869 only work if K(0) = '' and K(1) = HMAC(PRK, K(0) || CTXinfo || 1)

Parameters

string

$hash

The hashing function to use (e.g., sha256)

string

$ikm

The input keying material

string

$salt

The salt to add to the ikm, to get the prk

string

$info

Optional context (change the output without affecting the randomness properties of the output)